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Set up a battery of 12 cameras along a Sacramento racecourse with wires stretched across the track to operate their shutters. As a horse strode down the track, its hooves tripped each shutter individually to expose a successive photograph of the gallop, confirming Stanford’s belief. When Muybridge later mounted these images on a rotating disk and projected them on a screen through a magic lantern, they produced a “moving picture” of the horse at full gallop as it had actually occurred in life.
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The first film ever created was caused by a bet of $25,000. The film was a galloping horse.
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They started producing a series of short films. They started showing them in a Paris cafe and charging one-franc admission. These films covered such blockbuster issues as a man falling off horse and a child trying to catch a fish in a fish bowl.
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During this time, vaudeville was quite popular. In order get one-up o the competition and fill in time between acts, vaudeville theaters started featuring short films. As the 1900s dawned, vaudeville expanded into nickelodeons.
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Nickelodeon theaters were attracting 26-million viewers each week. Five years later that number had more than doubled. The popularity of films soon attracted the attention of those seeing the potential for big profits.
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U.S. Justice Department brought suit against the MPPC for “restraint of trade” in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Delayed by countersuits and by World War I, the government’s case was eventually won, and the MPPC formally dissolved in 1918, although it had been functionally inoperative since 1914.The rise and fall of the MPPC was concurrent with the industry’s move to southern California.
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Was once again facing financial collapse, and it turned this time to the Prussian financier Alfred Hugenberg, a director of the powerful Krupp industrial empire. Hugenberg bought out the American interests in UFA, into the hands of his political allies. As chairman of the UFA board, he quietly instituted a nationalistic production policy that gave increasing prominence to those allies when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933.
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Snow White and the seven dwarfs is the first Disney movie released.
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The first show color broadcast on Tv was ABC.
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Lucas Film was created in 1971, in San Francisco, California.
